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A postcolonial people : South Asians in Britain / N. Ali, V.S. Kalra, S. Sayyid, editors.

Contributor(s): Ali, N. (Nasreen), 1969- | Kalra, Virinder S | Sayyid, S. (Salman)Publication details: London : Hurst & Co., c2006. Description: xi, 436 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781850657972; 1850657971 (pbk.)Subject(s): South Asians -- Great Britain | Bangladeshis -- Great Britain | Indians -- Great Britain | Pakistanis -- Great Britain | Sri Lankans -- Great Britain | Biculturalism -- Great Britain | South Asians -- Great Britain -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 941.00491/4 LOC classification: DA125.S57 | P67 2006Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Acknowledgements page v The Contributors ix Introduction: BrAsians: Postcolonial People, Ironic Citizens S. Sayyid 1 Part I. FRAMES 11 Narrating the Postcolonial Political and the Immigrant Imaginary Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid 13 O Arrival Daalat Ali 32 The 'Asian' in Britain Avtar Brah 35 L Chicken Tikka Masala Sophia Ahmed 62 Politics of Blackness and Asian Identity Tariq Modood 64 B Curry Powder Apurba Kundu 72 The Dialectic of 'Here and There': Anthropology 'at Home' John Hutnyk 74 [I Drugs Noreen Sheikh-Latif 91 (Im)possible Intersections: Religion, (Post-)Colonial Subjectivity and the Ideology of Multiculturalism Arvind Mandair 93 O Football Daniel Burdsey 108 Writing a BrAsian City: 'Race', Culture and Religion in Accounts of Postcolonial Bradford Sedn McLoughlin 110 Part II. PORTRAITS 141 Mapping the Colonial: South Asians in Britain, 1857-1947 Humayun Ansari 143 O Anish Kapoor John Holt and Laura Turney 157 Imperial Implosions: Postcoloniality and the Orbits of Migration Nasreen Ali 158 Demographics of BrAsian Settlement, 1951-2001 CeriPeach 168 [I Muslims! Shehla Khan 182 The Politics of the BrAsian Electorate MuhammadAnwar 188 Brown Economy: Enterprise and Employment Shinder S. Thandi 211 Newham Dhanwant Rai 230 Policing Diversity: Racialisation and the Criminal Justice System Virinder S. Kalra 234 Health Care and BrAsians: Making Sense of Policy and Practice Karl Atkin 244 Palliative Care Gurch Randhawa and Alastair Owens 256 Imagining the Politics of BrAsian Youth Claire Alexander 258 The Scandal of 'Arranged Marriages' and the Pathologisation of BrAsian Families Fauzia Ahmad 272 L- Queer Shafqat Nasir 289 A City of Surprises: Urban Multiculturalism and the 'Leicester Model' Gurharpal Singh 291 Capital Gains: BrAsian Suburban North-West London Rupa Huq 305 Part III. SIGNATURES 315 Asian Sounds Sanjay Sharma 317 [Li Rusholme Nida Kirmani 327 The Singular Journey: South Asian Visual Art in Britain John Holt and Laura Turney 329 D] Uprisings Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain 340 South Asian / Asian Performing Arts Raminder Kaur and Alda Terracciano 343 [J Vasco da Gama Abdool Karim Vakil 358 Planet Bollywood Rachel Dwyer 362 ij Writings Yasmin Hussain 371 Metropolitan Borderlands: The Formation of BrAsian Landscapes Noha Nasser 374 O Zee TV Rajinder Dudrah 392 Bibliography 395 Index 431
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-429) and index.

Acknowledgements page v The Contributors ix Introduction: BrAsians: Postcolonial People, Ironic Citizens S. Sayyid 1 Part I. FRAMES 11 Narrating the Postcolonial Political and the Immigrant Imaginary Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid 13 O Arrival Daalat Ali 32 The 'Asian' in Britain Avtar Brah 35 L Chicken Tikka Masala Sophia Ahmed 62 Politics of Blackness and Asian Identity Tariq Modood 64 B Curry Powder Apurba Kundu 72 The Dialectic of 'Here and There': Anthropology 'at Home' John Hutnyk 74 [I Drugs Noreen Sheikh-Latif 91 (Im)possible Intersections: Religion, (Post-)Colonial Subjectivity and the Ideology of Multiculturalism Arvind Mandair 93 O Football Daniel Burdsey 108 Writing a BrAsian City: 'Race', Culture and Religion in Accounts of Postcolonial Bradford Sedn McLoughlin 110 Part II. PORTRAITS 141 Mapping the Colonial: South Asians in Britain, 1857-1947 Humayun Ansari 143 O Anish Kapoor John Holt and Laura Turney 157 Imperial Implosions: Postcoloniality and the Orbits of Migration Nasreen Ali 158 Demographics of BrAsian Settlement, 1951-2001 CeriPeach 168 [I Muslims! Shehla Khan 182 The Politics of the BrAsian Electorate MuhammadAnwar 188 Brown Economy: Enterprise and Employment Shinder S. Thandi 211 Newham Dhanwant Rai 230 Policing Diversity: Racialisation and the Criminal Justice System Virinder S. Kalra 234 Health Care and BrAsians: Making Sense of Policy and Practice Karl Atkin 244 Palliative Care Gurch Randhawa and Alastair Owens 256 Imagining the Politics of BrAsian Youth Claire Alexander 258 The Scandal of 'Arranged Marriages' and the Pathologisation of BrAsian Families Fauzia Ahmad 272 L- Queer Shafqat Nasir 289 A City of Surprises: Urban Multiculturalism and the 'Leicester Model' Gurharpal Singh 291 Capital Gains: BrAsian Suburban North-West London Rupa Huq 305 Part III. SIGNATURES 315 Asian Sounds Sanjay Sharma 317 [Li Rusholme Nida Kirmani 327 The Singular Journey: South Asian Visual Art in Britain John Holt and Laura Turney 329 D] Uprisings Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain 340 South Asian / Asian Performing Arts Raminder Kaur and Alda Terracciano 343 [J Vasco da Gama Abdool Karim Vakil 358 Planet Bollywood Rachel Dwyer 362 ij Writings Yasmin Hussain 371 Metropolitan Borderlands: The Formation of BrAsian Landscapes Noha Nasser 374 O Zee TV Rajinder Dudrah 392 Bibliography 395 Index 431